I suppose cigarette smokers derive
pleasure from smoking. Some smokers smoke to take their mind off a nagging
issue. Smoking a cigarette may be a status symbol- showing that you are
liberated. Some cigarette smokers say smoking calms their nerves. However one
looks at it a form of pleasure is taken from drawing on a cigarette butt,
according to cigarette smokers. However, the real trigger of pleasure in
smoking is a poisonous substance in tobacco (the main material from which
cigarette is made) called nicotine. When the nicotine gets into your system on
smoking, the pleasure is triggered. When the nicotine runs out in your system
you get the itch to top it up for more pleasure. Thus a ‘vicious’ circle is formed.
But what happens to the cigarette butt?
The cigarette butt eventually ends up
as waste. The cigarette butt itself is not smoked, it is the means by which the
cigarette smoke is inhaled, and for the supposed pleasure. After smoking the
cigarette, the cigarette butt is dropped as waste. The cigarette butt is what
remains after the cigarette has been smoked. Go to drinking bars, clubs etc.
you will see cigarette butts lying around. Just yesterday I passed a drinking
bar and I saw a lot of them lying around. Like plastic and other forms of
waste, cigarette butt are supposed to find their way into waste management
systems. But you and I know that some waste escape the approved waste
management system ending up in the natural environment. Cigarette butt is no
exception.
Cigarette butt forms a considerable part of waste polluting the
natural environment. Cigarette butt contains substances that are toxins and
therefore dangerous to the natural environment. Cigarette butts are not
biodegradable. Cigarette butts make the environment (especially beaches) dirty.
Toxins from cigarette butt leaches into seas and sand. Fish in the seas eat
cigarette butt thinking it is food. The toxin in the cigarette butt is released
into the fish.
A little cigarette butt here, a little cigarette butt there add up
to a whole lot of cigarette butts, each little butt releasing toxins amounting
to, on aggregate, a large amount of toxin which upsets the balance of the natural environment. An easy mistake to
make is to think that the little cigarette butt you are dropping is not enough
to upset the natural environment. Think of it this way, that at the material
time you are carelessly dropping your cigarette butts into natural environment,
millions of others are doing same, simultaneously. On that basis project the
scale on which you are helping to upset the environmental balance, given the
toxicity of cigarette butts.
I hope that may help you to quit smoking so that the issue of
dropping a cigarette butt to litter the natural environment should not happen
at all.
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